Randicus wrote:I did not like MC, until I read the man page and figured out how to use it. Now I love it. If you like terminal file managers, check out Ranger if you have not done so already.

wow...are you ever right about MC...I started reading the man page and I didn't even know you can enter shell commands. Ranger is very cool. Anyone using xterm? I really like it, but I need to get a right-click menu somehow...

mc works well within the gui, you can use the mouse to navigate around and double click things to open/run them.

I also like xterm and have a undecorated desktop window for that also. Ctrl-leftmousepress (and hold) opens up the xterm menu where you can switch it to full screen

I set mc and xterm to be below other windows, so they serve somewhat like a wallpaper. Set mc to open the left pane in your ~/bin folder (executable scripts) and the right pane to open your ~/Documents folder and you can mouse/click to open things from the get-go.

Masterpdf editor (not in repositories and my only non Debian MAIN exception) for PDF editing.

And firefox-ESR

... mostly caters for my needs (I also have Openshot, Blender, Inkscape and Audacity installed for video editing, together with recordmydesktop).

My preferred wm and panel is provided by jwm and pcmanf --desktop (pcmanfm also serves as the filemanager), however currently I'm running LXDE so openbox after having upgraded to Stretch only to discover its still not quite there yet for me, so I reverted back to Jessie.